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"Conscience ou absence… What happens in the brain when we become conscious—or when we don’t?"
Join us for the third edition of Conversations on Consciousness, hosted by Columbia University Professor Alfredo Spagna in collaboration with the Columbia Global Paris Center. This year’s event features two internationally recognized leaders in cognitive neuroscience: Stanislas Dehaene and Claire Sergent. Together, they will explore the neural architecture of conscious awareness, how attention shapes experience, and what brain research can teach us about the mind.
Speakers
Stanislas Dehaene is Professor at the Collège de France (Université Paris-Sciences-Lettres) and Director of the Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit at NeuroSpin (Université Paris-Saclay). His research spans numerical cognition, the neural basis of reading, and the neural correlates of consciousness.
Claire Sergent is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Université Paris Cité, based at the Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center (CNRS). Her research explores the psychological and neural mechanisms underlying conscious access in both vision and audition, including studies involving patients with disorders of consciousness.
Alfredo Spagna is Lecturer in the Discipline of Psychology, Director of Undergraduate Research, Co-Director of STAR Program, and Director of Undergraduate Studies (Neuroscience & Behavior) at Columbia University. He investigates the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying human attention and imagination, with a focus on the interplay between frontoparietal networks and high-level visual regions.
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